Minor Detour

Resting comfortably in ICU

Sadly, Blake didn't recover as well as we would have liked for him to from his cath procedure this morning. Throughout the day his sats continued to dip to really dangerous levels, and I can honestly say that I saw him change in one day from a happy (seemingly healthy) baby to a sad and sick baby. For a mother to watch her child change (literally in 24 hours) in front of her eyes and feel so helpless is one of the hardest things to experience.

When I was beyond worried about him and feeling like he just wasn't turning a corner, I called in the doctors to come take a look. They too were very concerned. So much so in fact, that they have transferred us to ICU, and have pushed his surgery up to tomorrow morning at 7 am. Dr. Fraser even offered to stay through the night to do his surgery tonight if he needed it, but he is starting to stabilize and rest so he will be ready for the morning.

I feel strangely at peace with his surgery tomorrow. I know he needs it, I know he is with the best surgeon, the best recovery team, and I feel like he sensed that we were in the place where it was OK to get sick, so he allowed himself to get sick so he could get fixed.

We ask you all to pray your hearts out for our little man (and his doctors) tomorrow. We'll try to keep you posted as the day progresses tomorrow.